Brave New World Suffering Analysis

Importance of Suffering
The novel, Brave New World, is based on a utopian society run on the foundation of conditioning that has ran for many generation and the prevention of disorder. The technological advances of society allowed for several different class levels, and cloning of eggs into multiple identical twins, usually for the lower classes. As a result of the deep conditioning, everyone lived with the idea that everyone belongs to each other and nobody is supposedly unhappy or suffering. They're able to take drugs, called soma, that help them alleviate the stress in their lives, which gets them high and in a dream like state. After the effects wear off, they are able to work again without hindering the success of the economy and helping the growth of the community. Every movement done throughout the implemented society only promotes the welfare of the people and of the economy and to prevent chaos and …show more content…
Even with all the conditioning to becoming happy, there are still people who experience feelings of inadequacy and even suffer alone because they are unsure of what to do. Most of them depend on soma, but the soma is not there to constantly save them and eventually lead to how they must face the harsh reality they have. Lenina is suffering through her emotions, and because of the conditioning to make her happy, rendering her unable to face her suffering directly and causing her to be unable to express how she feels. Linda is also suffering and when she did attempt to alleviate it with soma, she ended up dying weeks later, only to suffer until the very end. Huxley proves his point on suffering and how necessary it for living, through his characters, he emphasizes the importance of it and how crucial it becomes if not handled properly and even demonstrates how the utopian society was unable to contain all emotions into purely